Cupola form is complete and cupola rebar work underway. First floor water tubing getting connected to ground floor. Ground floor being refilled & compacted ready for concreting.
Work continues with the roof frame, stuccoing walls, running electric cabling and water pipes. Slab done for star deck. Form made for cupola dome.
Steel roof frame going up over ground floor. First floor walls nearing full height. Walls getting stuccoed.
Formwork used to support the first floor slab has been removed.
First floor slab poured and work now progressing with the upstairs walls. Stairs also poured. Work is advancing with the domestic water circuit.
Rebar bent and laid for spiral staircase. Double reinforced grid complete. Ready to pour slab.
Form in place for concrete rebar spiral staircase. Double layer of reinforcement going down for first floor slab.
Work moving along quickly getting form in place for first floor slab.
First floor rebar preparations continue and work underway getting the form in place for pouring first floor slab.
All walls up to first floor height. Preparing form for second floor and front balcony.
Most walls are up to full first floor height, electrical sockets/ switches being positioned.
Most foundations and footings under concrete, work started on walls.
Most foundation trenches and footings dug. First blocks being laid.
Rebar structure going up, foundations and footings being concreted in.
Piles of rebar have been prepared and work is well advanced with the footing excavations and foundation trenches.
Grid layed out and ground broken. Manually digging footings.
Service quarters pad raised to the same level as the main house pad. Driveway prepared with compacted sub-grade. Building grid being prepared prior to starting work excavating foundation trenches & footings.
Building pad is complete, bending rebar continues
The heavy rains have passed and work has resumed. The level of the building pad is been raised with heavy grade compacted rubble. Steel rebar is being prepared.
Bad weather this week has hampered progress. Workers haven't been able to arrive and the ground has been too wet to use heavy machinery. Some fill has been delivered & compacted.
The lot has been cleared where necessary and work is underway excavating sand to prepare a compacted rubble & subbase building pad.